I released version 0.9.8 of mu (e-mail searcher/indexer, previously
discussed in Searching e-mails with Wanderlust and mu). Now, for emacs-users
I've added mu4e (manual), a new & experimental e-mail client. It won't be
big and professional like gnus, but it's fun to hack on, and I've been
using it for a few months.

@djcb: thank you for the reply. Hope there is anything I can help. I have some connections to the author of howm.el. I would be very very much appreciate if you are considering to make sauron support howm.

Thanks a lot for this blog, this has been a source of inspiration ever since I found it.

I'm considering switching from thunderbird to emacs based mail reading. Following your lead, I tried Wanderlust, but it didn't manage to index/import my large maildir inbox (~9500 emails).

I need to spend some time trying to understand where the problem come from, but in the meantime I was wondering if you could comment on the indexing capabilities of mu and mu4e in this context. On mu's page, you write that indexing is fast. What would then be a large maildir for mu? I've roughly 9 Go of emails, with an inbox around 9500 emails and other boxes totaling roughly 120000 emails. Is that big with respect to mu?

@djcb: I've just tested mu (mu-0.9.8), this works perfectly! First indexing took 9 minutes for roughly 135 000 emails (on a xeon W3670 with plenty of everything). Search is instantaneous (browsing also in mu4e). I still need to adjust everything to have a complete configuration for mu4e, but so far this looks brilliant! I've browse very quickly the documentation, so I might have missed it, but is there a way to mark an email as unread?

Hi, I find mu4e is a great email client. I am considering to change my default email client from wanderlust to mu4e. However, there is one thing that prevent me from switching to mu4a, that is, I find mu4a can only display email written in utf-8. I usually receive emails with various encodings, such as shift_jis(Japanese), gb2312(Chinese) and some others. Could you please give me some advice on how to make mu4e display different encoding text other than utf8 automatically just like wanderlust does.

@Unknown: what version are you using? Current versions (>= 0.9.8.4) should be fine, or there is some bug. If you can reproduce it with the current version, please send me the raw message file where you see this problem, and I'll check.

Hi. Today I switched to mu4e from gnus which broke after an upgrade; I like it a lot already, so Thanks! Is it possible to copy a message to a sent folder depending on the 'From:' field? I ask this because I have three email accounts.Thanks.